Archive for the ‘Animals in History’ Category
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
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Bo, the First Dog, has an Official Portrait and an Official Baseball Card. The photograph shows Bo on the South Lawn of the White House.
The card stats indicate that the name "Bo" is indirectly in honor of rock & roll great Bo Diddley (by way of ...
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Barney, the Scottish Terrier and former First Dog, is helping his guardian reconnect with nature and adapt to his new routine. Speaking at the graduation reception for Artesia High School seniors in Roswell, New Mexico, on May 21, 2009, President George W. Bush said, "I realized this was the first ...
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
A medal awarded to a dog named Rip in July of 1945 for “locating many air raid victims during the (London) Blitz of 1940," sold at auction in London on Friday, April 24, 2009, fetching a record price of more than £24,250 ($35,594). In the United Kingdom, the Dickin Medal ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Senator Ted Kennedy has given the Obamas a six-month old Portuguese Water Dog. The puppy arrived at the White House over the weekend after an earlier Top Secret meeting with the First Family.
News reports allege that the puppy was named Bo by First Children Sasha and Malia because their ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
India, also called "Willie" and "Kitty," the Bush family cat, died at the White House on January 4, 2009. The black American short-hair was 18 years old.
When the President's daughter Barbara was nine years old, she named the cat "India" after the former Texas Ranger baseball player, Ruben Sierra, who ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
Socks the Cat, adopted in Little Rock, Arkansas by Chelsea Clinton in 1991, lived in the Clinton White House until the photo-ops ended, then moved to Maryland with Bill Clinton's former secretary Betty Curry. The 18-year-old Socks has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
"The president, Mrs. Clinton and Chelsea ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
This Christmas will be the last one in the White House for first dog Barney. BarneyCam 2008 features President George W. Bush, Mrs. Laura Bush, their daughters Barbara and Jenna, Jenna's husband Henry Hager, and Willard the cat. Some special friends, including Olympic gold-medalists Michael Phelps and Nastia Liukin, also ...
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
The First Dog show has opened in Washington DC. Does that mean the pony show is not too far behind?
First Dogs: American Presidents and Their Pets opened November 14, 2008, and will run through March 2009 at the Newseum, located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street, ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama gave his first press conference on November 7, 2008, at the Hilton Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. In response to the question "...what kind of dog are you going to buy for your girls?" he replied, "This is a major issue... We have -- we have two criteria ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
"If these dogs only knew what a difference they make. Certainly, there's nothing that can replace the precision of a dog's nose—and absolutely nothing that can replace a dog's heart."
— Bob Sessions, rescue worker, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
A black Labrador was abandoned as a 10-month old puppy with ...
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